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66
GAMMEL-ESTRUP.
Chap. XXXIII.
Hussars, had kindly given us a note to one of the
family, who did the honours of the place. We walked
through the garden : in green “ caisses ” stood gigantic
orange-trees in full blossom and perfume, nearly coeval
with the building, which dates from an early part
of the sixteenth century, commenced before, but not
finished in time for Skipper Clemens to burn it to the
ground. Of red brick, flanked on the entrance side by
two octagonal towers, crowned with open-work
battlements, it reminded me of Hampton Court.
When once in these Jutland courts, and you have
visited the Biddersaal, you have seen the best. Here it
is a spacious oblong room, the conventional form ; heavy
ceiling richly decorated in compartments once painted;
walls hung with ancient tapestry, representing some
twelve chateaux, all, like this, ending in “ Up,” *
possessed by the family in the last century, when
the Count of Scheel of that ilk is said to have
ridden from Grenaa to Viborg, a distance of sixty
English miles, without once quitting his own estates; but
said Count Scheel, a fast young officer, loved cards and
dice as well, and he gambled away estate after estate.
The saal is entirely hung round with oval portraits,
many of them very charming, by Juel. We are now
well “ up ” in these pictures, and recognise at once one
old acquaintance. I was quite glad again to see the
Arveprinds, son of Juliana, and his fair wife of most
destructive eyes, “fendus à l’amande,” with just a
Chinese “ squeedge ” at the corners; they are
hereditary too, and are reproduced in a second generation
in the person of her handsome granddaughter, the
Princess Augusta of Hesse.
* “ Up ” is a corruption of thoip.”
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